--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > > "Anti-fraud detectives have turned their international fight against > illegal downloads to a small French town, where a mystery pirate has > been filming Hollwyood blockbusters at the local cinema and posting > them on the internet." > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6119408/Hollywood-piracy-detectives-close-in-on-French-town.html
This surprises me, and makes me think that the French -- as they tend to do -- are posturing for the MPAA. There are very FEW movies from France posted as "CAM jobs" on the torrent trackers. I should know...I would be down- loading them if there were. Most of the CAM jobs come from Russia, and appear first with a dubbed Russian soundtrack until someone re- synchs an English soundtrack to their footage. What I suspect is going on here is that the French are doing the same thing they did with the "drug problem." They cracked down hard on marijuana, trying to imply that the Netherlands was the source of the problem, *as a distraction* to take focus away from the fact that Marseilles is still one of the capitals of the world drug trade. How very French of them. :-) It's also "very French" that they haven't caught the "shooter." :-) I can recommend the two-part "Mesrine" (L'instinct de mort and L'ennemi public n°1), by the way. The performance by Vincent Cassel (Mr. Monica Belluci) is chilling and Oscar-worthy, but it tends to run a little slow for Americans who would not know the "back story" on France's Public Enemy Number One, who ran rings around French law enforcement for many years. He was one Bad Dude, but eluded the police for so long that he became almost a Jesse James-like outlaw figure, with large parts of the population rooting for him. Strange true story.
